Category Archives: entertainment

Ok so this post really isn’t going to have 7 reasons to boycott the listicle, however I will talk about how and why the listicle is so popular. If you ask me, listicles are pure linkbait, and we should boycott them because, simply, they really do not contain any useful content. I would class the… Read More »

Does anyone here remember when President Kennedy announced that we would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade? Probably not – was before most of our time: On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending… Read More »

Yes, in this article, we will reveal 5 ways in which to have sex with your iPhone. Don’t worry, none of them require any special positions, unless of course you happen to be into any of those positions, that is. But before I do that, I’m curious, did you read this article BEFORE you forwarded it on? Pretty… Read More »

Amazon is super late to the smartphone game – and what can they do to make it innovative? Screen size isn’t that big, its 4.7 Looks a LOT like an iPhone. I smell lawsuit wafting in from Cupertino, just west of here. Gorilla Glass 3 on both front and back. What no back screen? There’s… Read More »

Just playing around with Facebook’s new snapchat-killer Slingshot. fun but what? People can send you pictures or video, which can either be like that (kind of like Vine) or you can doctor them up with text and a drawing tool. Just like Snapchat the images and video are ephemeral, but in a different way –… Read More »

Spotify’s latest move to make all of its services free (since they raised a quarter billion dollars) is just the latest strike against paying for content. For a while now the perceived price of content has been under fire. The source of this probably came about during the late 60’s with Stewart Brand‘s infamous comment:… Read More »

One of the things I personally believe in incredibly important, a skill that everyone should have and cultivate, above all others, is the skill to problem solve. Sure, public speaking is important. So is Language Arts, Math, Science etc. But if you ask me, once you have problem solving skills, then everything else falls out… Read More »

The other day, we were driving through downtown Palo Alto and I saw a really long line for some place called CREAM, so I asked my wife what it was. Since she’s more hip to what the buzz is when it comes to restaurants, she told me they were “ice cream sandwiches”. I immediately thought… Read More »

I’ve been having a long, back and forth discussion on “whats wrong with the youth of today” with various folks of my, somewhat advanced age group, and I think I’ve come to a few conclusions: We are probably saying the same things about “the youth” that our parents said about us The divide is not… Read More »

IMHO, the Hunger Games portrays a completely plausible future – as today – and still as per William Gibson’s famous quote – the future is already here, just unevenly distributed. In the Hunger Games, the future has come and gone, with the technologies which support state oppression far advanced, and evenly distributed while others which… Read More »